Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With Youtube
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands.
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Neural Nets Model Audience Reactions to Movies
Disney researchers applied deep-learning neural networks to develop a new way of evaluating movie audiences' reactions using facial expressions.
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Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace Near You
A clutch of companies are changing how work gets done---by using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.
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A New System to Estimate the Duration of a Walk in the Countryside
Researchers at the University of Seville have developed a system to estimate the time that it takes to complete a walk in the countryside. A system algorithm uses...
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Here's a Peek at the Iphone's Next Big Trick
We've all heard about the promise of augmented reality coming to the iPhone. With iOS 11 due later this year, Apple is releasing ARKit–a software that allows developers...
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Artificial Musician Builds New Melodies Without Music Theory
A new deep-learning algorithm can generate melodies that imitate a given style of music.
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How Video Games Helped Give S the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art
Researchers have modified a generative adversarial network to create an artificial intelligence program that produces images in unconventional styles.
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Cracking the Code on DNA Storage
Researchers are tapping DNA to create a new and different type of storage media. The technology could prove revolutionary.
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Artificial Intelligence Poised to Ride a New Wave
Flush with recent successes, and pushed by even newer technology, AI systems could get much smarter.
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How Scratch and Minecraft Developers Hope to Keep Kids Coding For Life
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab aim to nurture a lifelong enthusiasm for programming among young students, using the Scratch learn-to-code platform.
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Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels
Swiveling seats? Movies projected across the windshield? Social media feeds on the windows?
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The 'time Machine' Reconstructing Ancient Venice's Social Networks
Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts...
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The Internet Is Where We Share, and Steal, the Best Ideas
In April, a photograph of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o taken at a Miu Miu fashion show three years ago began recirculating online.
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Waltzing Robot Teaches Beginners How to Dance Like a Pro
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a robotic dance instructor.
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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Google's Alphago Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win For AI
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program beat a Chinese world champion in the first of three Go games held this week.
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Potential and Peril
The outlook for artificial intelligence-based autonomous weapons.
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Deep Learning Takes on Translation
Improvements in hardware, the availability of massive amounts of data, and algorithmic upgrades are among the factors supporting better machine translation.
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